Sam Ecroyd News Today

Riders are gearing up in preparation to run the 26.2 miles of the TCS London Marathon for charities next Sunday (23 April). Elite amateur five-star event rider Max Gordon is balancing his marathon training with the eventing season and his job as a barrister. He will be hitting the capital’s streets for charity Children With […]

British event riders Emily King and Sam Ecroyd, and groom Sarah Morrilly, are swapping four legs for two to take on the TCS London Marathon this spring

Tom McEwen has won the Land Rover Blair Castle Horse Trials CCI3*-L with Brookfield Cavalier Cruise and the CCI4*-L with Luna Mist

Olympic rider Tom McEwen leads both the CCI4*-L and the CCI3*-L after the cross-country phase of the Blair Castle Horse Trials

Tom McEwen and Brookfield Cavalier Cruise top the leaderboard of the Blair Castle Horse Trials CCI3*-L after the dressage

SALES: Buoyant sale returns two €30,000 top lots 2022-05-06

British rider Sam Ecroyd is in hospital with multiple injuries following a rotational fall. Sam, 21, was riding the nine-year-old gelding Langford Take The Biscuit in an open novice section at Kelsall Hill on Sunday (25 April) when they fell on the cross-country. He was airlifted to Aintree University Hospital with multiple fractures to his face and skull, and bleeding on the brain. Sam, who has competed up to CCI5* and has won multiple international fixtures as well as medals at youth European...

Horse & Hound Trending: Credit: Bit-Media/Goresbridge Horse Sales The Go For Gold select event horse sale in Country Wexford, Ireland (7-8 December) followed the generally strong trend seen across auctions in 2020, with solid prices exceeding last year’s sale total. The top lot, Jackie, a four-year-old grey filly by Jack of Diamonds out of the Cruising mare Cappercullen Cruise, sold to John Ellard in the UK for  €50,000 (£45,589), after attracting more than 30 bids. She was put...